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Rock/resize linux rootfs

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Revision as of 04:39, 20 December 2014 by PeiYao Wang (Talk | contribs)

The default size of lubuntu firmware's roofts is about 2.0G, it's too small, you can do as follows to expends it. But there are two kinds of firmware, one is for nand,and another one is for sdcard. So you should use different method to do it


1: For Nand image If you flash the image on nand flash, you can execute the below command on the terminal in the board's lubuntu system

 "resize2fs /dev/block/mtd/by-name/linux-root " 

to expand the rootfs


2: For sdcard image

If you use the sdcard's image, you should put the sdcard into a card reader ,and put the card reader into PC and resize the partations


a) For PC with Linux

Use gparted

  1. sudo gparted /dev/sdb

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b) For PC with windows

//No useful methods has found.